Mug Rug Madness

Erin from 'Two More Seconds' is hosted Mug Rug Madness: holiday edition from 12th - 22nd   September 2011. What is Mug Rugs? You will know all about it by clicking HERE.  There are tons of inspiration, and tutorials to follow to enable you to make your own mug rugs.

Last night I try to sew one of my own mug rug...and this is how my first mug rug looks like .

The binding is still yet to be sewn.

 I will share the completed mug rug  in the Mug Rug Madness flickr group.

This is my first and I am sure it will not be my last!

Happy sewing!!

Embroidery 101:Block 7

I just completed stitching the embroidery for Block 7 for the Stitch & Quilt Along at Clover & Violet.

The cloud was suppose to used the split stitch but while I'm doing it I forgot about it and end up everything was used the back stitch... anyway



the rest of the pattern were according to the stitch as given by Jennie.



Happy Stitching!!

Crochet Along

This is the first Crochet Along that I've participated. It was host by Scottie...at the Oxford Family blog.
For those interested to join the fun, you may visit her blog for the details... I make used all the yarns that available from my stock... since I don't have time to go shopping for new yarns.  And these are what I  choose and there will be more colours since we need to crochet 88 pieces of Granny Square...

Basically the Crochet Along is already in week 3 and since I just came back from my long holidays I only started crocheting on 10th September... and following are the squares that I've completed up to round 4 so far...total of 11 pieces only.



I am sharing this at  Crochet Along Week 3 and WiP Wednesday

Happy Crocheting !!!

Crochet Along

Sarah from Saradipities brings me to Maybe Matilda Crochet Along
and I jump to join the fun by register myself yesterday. This will be
my second Crochet Along that I've participated so far for this year.


To those interested to join the fun you may click HERE
which will take you to her blog. 

Happy Crocheting!!

Embroidery 101: Block 6

It has been a long holidays... away from home
and  from my computer.

And today after the long leave and being sick for the last 4 days,
I'm here to share with you my Block 6 for the
Embroidery 101: Quilt along....

And following is the picture of all the six completed blocks for the
Embroidery 101: Quilt Along with Clover & Violet.

Sorry for the bad quality of the picture...

Anyway hope everyone enjoy viewing... and to those participate

Happy Stitching!!

Embroidery 101 : Block 5

It has been a busy month .... Since we are preparing for the festival
that was just around the corner, I left with no time to
commit with stitching the Block 5 for the
Embroidery 101: Quilt Along on time.

Here is my Block 5 which was just completed today.

Happy Stitching!! and ...
to all Muslim Wish you 'Happy Eid Ul-Fitr'

WIP Wednesday

I've been busy crocheting to complete orders from my customers.
Basically the orders are mainly kopiah with name for children.



I'm half way crocheting this piece... , hope I can complete by tonight.
Being a full time working mother with five children makes me
left with limited hours for myself and hobbies.




And this baby cardigan that I've been working on sometime ago
have to temporarily stop too, since I need to rush  finishing  all the
orders before end of this month. 

I'm sharing this post at

 

Happy Crocheting!!

Crochet projects

Crochet projects that I've being working on for the whole week are these three "kopiah"with name.
Kopiah as we call it in Malaysia is a rounded cap worn by Muslim men. 

Basically all these "kopiah" with name are orders from a customer for her children. 

These two kopiah are basically from two different pattern.  The one on the top I used hdc stitch and on the bottom is using dc stitch.  It is my first try... just to see the different.  Upon completion,  I found that crochet using the dc stitch was much faster in completing the project. 

 
Anyway, I love the hdc stitch pattern better if to compare with the dc stitch since the "kopiah" looks more sturdy and neat.

Happy crocheting!!

Embroidery 101 : Block 4

This week what I did  for sewing was stiching the 

 Block 4 of  Embroidery 101 Quilt Along

at Clover &Violet.

The most challenging part when stitching this pattern was when

working with the long and short stich.

That is why, I choose to stitch the bird and the roof  pattern
 after I have completed the others...

Anyway with the little diagram provided by Jennie

on how to worked the stitches I managed to

complete it.

The little diagram was really helpful!!

Just to share with everyone following are all the four completed

blocks for the Embroidery 101 : Stitch and Quilt Along.

I also share this post at Sew Darn Crafty
and Clover & Violet.


Happy Stitching!!

Tuition Bag ...

Adam, my younger son has been asking

 for ages for a tuition bag. 

 He would like to have a tote bag
with zipper to be used when attending his afternoon class.
His school bag is just too big for him...

Basically sewing a bag does not take so much time ...
just sometime there are too many things
in my head that makes me tend to forget ...

And today,I come out with this tuition bag for him
with a pocket in the inside.
This bag was made using stash fabric.


 He insist to have 'tuition bag' wording stitch on it...

and since there is a ship...
he also asked to embelish it with a yoyo, as a sun ...

And this is how the completed bag looks like!
He was so happy  with the result.

 
To him everything was

just perfect as how he wants it to be...
and here is Adam, showing off his new bag!!

 Happy Sewing !!!

Yo-Yo Along

I am so happy today upon received a parcel from the post Office!! 

Do you want to know what was inside it???
Well it was a yo-yo maker...

 I never expect to received it this soon since the supplier
promised to post it only during weekends...

Anyway I send my many thanks to Zila the owner
of  the shop for sending it earlier...
By having this yo-yo maker, now I can participate
in the Yo-Yo Along with Penny at Sew Take A Hike ...
If you're interested to join, please visit her blog for the details.

Being so excited having this tool,
 I start to play around with it.
And this is my first yo-yo made using the maker...



And as at today, I've already made  25 yoyos ...
and that mean I still have about 983 yoyos to go
if  I would like to have the same size of yoyo quilt as Penny's.


Happy Sewing!!!

WIP Wednesday

My Work In Progress currently is crocheting a Baby Cardigan.

This is not my first attempt in crocheting baby cardigan.
The first baby cardigan was from the Free Pattern website...
which turn out to be too small(can't find the photo to share here with everyone)
This might be due to the yarn and hook that
I used were different from the recommended size.

 I've  learn a lesson from my first cardigan experience...
so for this new pattern I am not exactly follow the pattern  ...
I do a lot of modification to it ...
hopefully it turn out perfect...
anyway the result can only be seen once I've completed it.  

Happy Crocheting!!!